I heroically fought the battle against the Ghastly PowerPoint and can declare victory, but I was still dealing the the trauma of it as we headed off on Saturday to Albuquerque. I checked the emails I’d been ignoring, and found out the filming of the Comic-Con scenes had changed to the 11th and 12th, and…
Category: Daft Musings
Carolyn and the Ghastly PowerPoint
Last week, my supervisor asked me to research and put together my thoughts on two subjects…by Friday…in PowerPoint. I hate PowerPoint. No, I loathe PowerPoint. For years, toiling away in the bowels of magazine land, I had to endure PowerPoint presentations droning on and on about market share and strategic opportunities when I just wanted…
A Month of Dramatic Events
Peter and I usually live an interesting life, but we try to keep it mellow just before Comic-Con, our big annual event, because there’s plenty of drama already with readying the latest version of ComicBase, making sure everything’s in place for the show, and packing everything up. Well, this year, Fate did not agree with…
Zombie Invasion: Baptists or Mormons?
I’ve been thinking, if there was a zombie invasion, who would I rather hole up with: the Baptists or the Mormons? Both these Christian sects are in good shape to hold off zombies. They keep provisions and have killer homemaking skills, they have guns and people who know how to shoot them, and a broad…
Neil and the Julia Robinson Math Festival
A few months ago, Neil participated in the Math Counts competition, which was enlightening and humbling. The program was great: all through the year, he had to work out tough mathematical challenges. In February, the Silicon Valley chapter put the students who’d been in the program to the test. It turns out, that compared to…
Armageddon Crime Spree
My last few posts have been rather down, but I was beginning to cheer up. Then, last night, I kept waking up from dreams based on Natural Born Killers. Then today, I loaded my children in the car to take them to the Grange, where I could check out a (sort of) a homeschool group…
The Armageddon Stock Strategy Wins
Last month, to teach Neil a bit about the stock market and to watch its current trends ourselves, Peter set up a stock market game for the family. To say I was pessimistic at the time may have been a bit of an understatement. I had recently seen this graph based on the Congressional Budget…
Swine Flu Panic
On Tuesday morning, Kelly started moaning and crying and then ran to throw up. Normally, in these circumstances, I simply declare her sick and she has to stay home for the day. But by then, the news services in full-on panic mode about a new viral strain that had been dubbed swine flu. Peter and…
Snoopy in Space at the Schulz Museum
I originally planned to take the children to the De Young Museum today; and another homeschool parent had told me about a free hands-on science day as CSU-Hayward; but in the end, I decided what I would rather do this weekend than on any other is to visit the Charles M. Schulz Museum again with…
Kelly Works the Farmer’s Market
Kelly loves the farmer’s market, and already, at the age of five, she’s got the farmer’s market vibe down. She walks around all the booths, trying samples and greeting the farmers. She points out her favorite produce for me to buy (today’s take: English peas for snacking, Romanescu broccoli, salmon dip, though I passed on…